Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jig
Finished closing up our camp late yesterday … we got home just as the sun was setting. I’m now sitting in the middle of a mountain of things which need to be unpacked and put away …
… and I also have a very nasty house to clean. There have been people in and out of here the entire three months I was gone – cooking, traipsing in mud, shaving in the bathroom sink, piling up stacks of stuff here and there … there were 3 months of newspapers on the table! If you could see this place, you’d wonder whether it needs a good cleaning, or a well set fire … *blink!* You know, we never get “Trick or Treaters” at Halloween, because the place really looks the part of a haunted house … and I think that the only kiddos who would come here would be the ones who came on some sick sort of dare …
Actually, it really is an awful place – old, drafty, falling down. It’s over 300 years old, and has been here since before the nation was a country … it was built when Maine was still part of Massachusetts! It has a dirt basement which floods, no insulation, about 10 rooms with horsehair plaster walls, and plaster falling from the ceilings. It used to be a dairy farm. I’ve never really written much about my house in my public blog … but I have had some rather entertaining adventures in here. I might start sharing a few of those … >;o)
School has also kept me pretty busy. The last 16 weeks of classes have been particularly time consuming … the class I just started on Sunday is a computer related course, and although I expect it to be time consuming, it won’t be quite the same. What I’ve been studying is medical records content and structure, HIPAA, AHIMA, legalities, regulations, and getting a very intense indoctrination about why electronic records are better than paper records. This time, we’ll be delving into “Advanced PC Applications” … Microsoft stuff, actually. I think I can “relax into” this one.
I’ll be on more now that I’m home again, and the school work isn’t quite as intense … after I get unpacked and settled back in, that is …
October 31st, 2006 at 1:23 pm
well moof i certainly know what you mean about coming home and having all that stuff to unpack. we are snowbirds and every year i say i won’t move so much and then of course i do, sigh…. anyway i would love to hear more about your house, it sounds fascinating!!! bee
October 31st, 2006 at 3:17 pm
Any chance of Massachusetts getting your house back? I think that’d be cool!
best,
Flea
October 31st, 2006 at 4:57 pm
I’m glad you’re home safely, Moof. Your house sounds a lot like the one I lived in growing up, except mine wasn’t that old. I’ve been worried about y’all with the news reports of the bad weather you had; so I’m glad to see you posting, since that means you obviously have power!
Make those that tracked it, clean it, hon, and give you a break!
Love ya
Shel
October 31st, 2006 at 8:38 pm
Moof..welcome home!! mess and all..:) Ok so when are you getting back in the car and turning around and running back to camp?? Your house sounds wonderful..full of interesting stories..hope you will share some when you have time..BTW I have been gtetting back the typical answers to all the emals I have been sending, well the ones that don’t come back saying that it couldn’t get through the firewall..they are all passing the buck..as one would expect..!! aagghhh so I will keep trying and pursuing other avenues..Oh yea Happy Happy Spook day..if you have a moment run by and see my Halloween send up..its a hoot..well take care..m
October 31st, 2006 at 11:26 pm
ohh wow.. and you said relax into computer stuff… *groan* im worried more about those then the class you just described taking.. LOL maybe thats cause I already worked in med records and have experience with charts vs comp records… Welcome home.. your house sounds facinating;).. have fun
November 1st, 2006 at 12:41 am
brrr ..no insulation doesn’t sound good …the rest of it sounds facinating!
Packing …unpacking … I think those are about to become two very foul words in my vocabulary!
November 1st, 2006 at 12:51 am
A 300 year old house – wow! In my Los Angeles a 40 year is considered an “old” house. I’m fascinated and hope that you’ll tales about the house. Being well informed on my hated HIPAA and other paper regulations I would not have the guts to learn your “APCA” course voluntarily. Hurray for your bravery!
November 1st, 2006 at 5:18 am
Welcome home. I think a 300-year old house is a phenomenal thing to have, despite the incoveniences. This surely is a heritage structure. Three centuries is out of the question here on the west coast, where 150 years is amazingly old. That’s why it’s kind of nice to be traipsing among venerable structures here in Grenoble for the time we’re here. My wife had never been to Europe, so she’s quite dazzled by the antiquity of it all.
Until later, my dear friend,
Ian
November 1st, 2006 at 10:46 pm
I think that old homes are really neat, but having lived in a 100 year old house, I know that it isn’t as cool as it ‘reads’.
The history of these types of homes is the most enjoyable part of it all by far!
I was wondering…
Has it been a part of your family for multiple generations?
Glad you are home safe and sound.
later…
November 2nd, 2006 at 1:44 am
Welcome home. We talked a little about med records and structure at our meeting last week. Sorry you had to suffer through HIPPA *yawn*
November 3rd, 2006 at 1:40 am
Bee – I envy you snow birds … where do you winter?
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Dr. Flea … Massachusetts can HAVE my house, with my compliments! *LOL*
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Shel … the weather was, indeed, quite rough. High winds, mostly, although we had a bit of flooding, too. And Sweety, if I could get those that tacked to clean it … I’d be a different person, living with different people … *sigh*
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Madd, I’ll share more about my house, but I guarantee that it’s definitely not wonderful! *cough!* ;o)
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Wolfbaby, the class I was just taking was difficult for reasons outside of the material. You’ll see what I mean when you get there.
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Pk … yes, I’m sure you understand about the packing and unpacking … and apparently, you seem to understand about the lack of insulation, too. ;o)
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Dr. Engel … I bet you’d do just fine in the APCA course I’m taking. You know a lot more about computers than you let on! I’m sure you’re already quite well versed in medical records and all of that stuff, though. I think I’m allergic to HIPAA … 0.o
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Ahhh Ian, define phenomenal …
If you mean that a 300 year old house somehow relates to being a phenomenon of sorts, then yes, I agree. Otherwise … it’s more like “interesting” … in the Chinese sense.
You made me fall in love with France when you wrote about how nice and quiet it is, but here you’re mentioning “antiquities” and suddenly, I’m no longer in love! *LOL* ;o)
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TJ … you are so right. This house is, quite literally, the bane of my existence. It does have a history, though. It was built in what was the center of “town” … now the center is 3 miles away, and this is countryside. My husband’s father, who was 91 when he died last year, was born in my bedroom. When I moved into here, we moved around generations of other people’s furniture, and stored items. This last August was our 26th year here.
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Dr. Anon … I’m sorry I had to suffer through HIPAA too. I’ve got my own ideas about HIPAA and privacy priorities … *rolls eyes* … I’m not sure that HIPAA has been all that helpful …